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TIL that the original creator of the Chattering Teeth toy, patented in 1949, is still alive and inventing toys at the age of 104

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epK0k TIL that the term "spring fever" originally referred to illness in the spring caused by a lack of fresh foods in the winter.
e0X6k TIL left-handers can have poor handwriting posture because they write with a “hooked” style when trying to copy how right-handers write, but if they position the paper to their left with the bottom-right edge angled down, then their wrist and arm straightens for neater and more comfortable writing.
0GBA TIL Stargate was the first film to have an official dedicated website, in 1994
OMEe TIL that the 6th President of the United States, John Quincy Adams, was accused of being a pimp.
eAP4 TIL Tom Morello; guitar player for bands like Audioslave and Rage Against the Machine, was the child of the very first elected president of Kenya